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Feb 21, 2023There isn’t a better way that Skrillex could’ve made his return, and Quest For Fire will undoubtedly be remembered as one of his best.
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Feb 17, 2023Quest for Fire is still visceral EDM designed to get the pulse racing, but the whole thing has been given an ambitious refresh. The second coming of Skrillex starts here.
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Feb 17, 2023The album seamlessly transitions through genres of music that will be influencing the next decade of sound. To achieve such fluidity is unbelievable, and Skrillex continues to be the Godfather of EDM.
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Feb 22, 2023Everything rolls along like it’s actually going somewhere—not a flatulent dubstep waddle, but an aerodynamic gallop that brings to mind a deeper lineage of loud and obnoxious dance music, from the technical end of drum’n’bass to “proper” dubstep, Northern bassline, and Chicago juke.
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Mar 6, 2023The tracks on Quest for Fire go for instant dancefloor gratification, but they're far more refined and nuanced than the brostep ragers that made Skrillex a household name in the early 2010s.
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Feb 22, 2023Perhaps some of this record suffers from thin songwriting but the drops, so clearly the main attraction here, are characterful, razor-sharp and banging.
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Feb 21, 2023Tonal contradictions, while at points jarring and a tad distracting with how little they ultimately coalesce, provide the album with a punchy sense of dynamism across its 15 tracks.
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Feb 17, 2023As with Recess, Skrillex has wrangled a constellation of guest stars for Quest for Fire; the way they move in and out of each song enhances the album’s grab-bag feel.
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Feb 17, 2023It's really cool on paper, a showcase of obvious and enormous talent with an extensive feature list that manages to satiate fans’ long-awaited fantasies while still giving them opportunities to explore new discographies. yet somehow it still ends up much smaller than the sum of its parts, particularly the main star.
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Feb 17, 2023Covering so much ground (‘Hydrate’ even bridges dubstep and reggae) means the album lacks a clear narrative or overarching theme.
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Feb 17, 2023An eclectic grab-bag of ideas that achieve varying degrees of success. When it hits the mark, you can understand why pop stars and left-field figures alike have been drawn into Skrillex’s orbit. But taken in one dose, it’s alternately exhilarating, frustrating and a little exhausting.
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Feb 27, 2023Listening to the album feels like opening a time capsule to the early and mid-10s, a period marked by a cheesy, over-the-top hedonism that might only be truly understood if you survived the Great Recession and saw Obama become president twice. ... It's easier to get behind Quest For Fire when Moore's dubstep influences are subtler.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 26
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Mixed: 3 out of 26
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Negative: 3 out of 26
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Feb 19, 2023A very good album with a lot of experimental sounds, makes it feel like an old skrillex but with more knowledge about music
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Feb 19, 2023It takes the meme out of dubstep while pushing the genre forward in an exciting direction.
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Feb 25, 2023